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[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

The story of the Younger Sibling is often neglected. This is the Life of Arthur Leywin's Younger Brother as he learns the Dark Truth of his World, as well as who he truly is. A Boy Born with an incredible affinity for mana and a destiny set out for him by figures born of another world. This story has heavy story elements, including Characters and concepts taken from Various works by Kinoko Nasu. The Beginning after the End is owned exclusively by TurtleMe23, and I claim no ownership of any of the Cast except any OCs.

This is a 12-week crystal ritual journey designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself and build simple daily spiritual practices. Inside this guide you'll find: • crystal healing exercises • intention setting rituals • weekly reflection prompts • manifestation journaling pages Each chapter represents one week of the ritual journey. If you would like the full printable Crystal Ritual Journal, you can download it free here: auroandco.shop/pages/crystal-ritual-journal-free-printable-crystal-healing-manifestation-planner

As a therapist myself I started writing this novel/series to help myself deeply integrate psychological theories, methods, and regulations deeply in preparation for various professional situations. I hope you find psychoeducation wound into the fantasy world of St.Vespers Academy in this YA styled book. Blossom Bright never meant to become a therapist. She only meant to survive. When she is accepted into an elite, secretive academy that trains students in the art of healing the human mind, Blossom quickly learns that therapy is not just science - it is structure, power, and sometimes something far more dangerous. Within the stone corridors of the Academy, houses are divided by philosophy, loyalties are tested by emotional truths, and the boundary between clinician and savior begins to blur. As Blossom struggles to master the delicate hierarchy of care - safety before insight, law before emotion, assessment before depth - she becomes entangled in mysteries buried beneath the institution itself. A force known only as the Field whispers through grief, urgency, and doubt, tempting therapists to abandon structure in the name of compassion. Alongside the brilliant and quietly unsettling Naurice Thorne, and under the steady presence of Rowan - whose understanding feels too precise to be coincidence - Blossom must learn the most difficult lesson of all: Sometimes healing requires restraint. Sometimes love requires distance. And sometimes the most dangerous mistake is believing you are the answer. In a world where empathy can become obsession and competence can become power, Blossom must decide not only how to pass the trials of the Academy... ...but what kind of therapist she is willing to become.

Trade routes and their buyers are passed down from one generation to the next. They are the lifeblood of a new, connected world, where the distance between tiny villages and towering cities gets smaller every day. As traveling merchants, Arte and Merritt are a vital piece of that growing world. Unfortunately, they are also terrible with directions. After two weeks and no luck, they look to a mysterious village mapmaker for help finding their route, but quickly discover it won't be so easy as asking for directions. Follow the three of the main characters as they travel northward in the dead of winter. I'm sure they will all be fine! 'Dreams of a Map Maker' is a weekly series picking up where each previous week left off. Each week is considered a rough draft, and will eventually be rewritten into a complete story containing all parts. AI-Free story. No AI was used to write this story, and no AI assistance will ever be used in the future.

𝓣𝓗𝓔 𝓖𝓞𝓛𝓓𝓔𝓝 𝓡𝓘𝓝𝓖 Ruin never believed in magic... until the day he found a mysterious golden ring in an abandoned room at his school. At first it looked ordinary. But soon strange things begin to happen. Shadows move when no one is there. Dark whispers follow him in the night. With the help of Lusi, the curious researcher, and Teacher Tong, the only person who knows the history of the ring, Ruin begins to uncover a dangerous secret. Then Mishu enters his life... and slowly becomes the most important person to him. But Ruin doesn't know the truth yet. Someone close to him wants the ring's power. And the greatest betrayal will come from the one he trusts the most. A story of magic, friendship, love, and dark secrets. Sometimes the real enemy... is the one standing beside you.

A tale of unwavering devotion across time and space. Iris discovers meaning where there was none before. She goes on a voyage of discovery, piecing her madness together slowly to finally see the truth. The never ending cycles always leading her back to the place where she belongs.

A young artist has just dropped out of school, convinced by her teachers that her art has no value. A young man has accidentally stopped taking the antipsychotic medication he was prescribed as a child to keep him from seeing shadows, hearing voices, and waking in the middle of the night tormented by night terrors. Depression, visions... do they come from a troubled mind, or from somewhere else entirely? A simple coincidence becomes the starting point of an adventure that will forever change the life of our protagonist, as he begins to discover what he is truly capable of.

Before heroes. Before villains. Before the world knew their names. There were eight. Bound by fate and changed forever by a power that should never have been discovered, their existence would quietly shape the course of history for centuries to come. But every legend begins with a single moment. And some moments change the world forever.

Where an individual girl's life is just like any other teenagers life, complicated. Where she learns things about herself that she wouldn't have otherwise. Where she realizes how messed up she is and the rest of the world, but maybe, just maybe there is hope out there for them all. A huge thank you to @pollywritess for the amazing cover!

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Chiara Giordano was born and raised in the U.S. until her father died and her mother took her and her siblings back to her country, France. Years later, Chiara moves back to the U.S. for her last year of her degree in a exchange program with st Cloud university in Minessota where her cousin and best friend also studies. There, she meets Adrian Vidal, from the neighbor college. One spontaneous night spent together creates a lasting bond between both of them, that can't go away. The problem? He's Chiara's cousins greateast rival on the ice and he's also in love with his best friend. Yet they can't keep away from each other even when Adrian faces the pressure of familly and being hockey captain while Chiara tries to figure out where she belongs and what she wants to do with her life after her last year of college. Maybe what they need is exactly what they can't have.

The life of Surayya Hamdan took a drastic turn and before she realized it, she found herself deep in the path of despair that posed a danger to her life and family. In the midst of dealing with defamation, paranoia, losing her job and all that her life brought-the trials and pain-it also reawakened the feelings of the man she had always been in love with, Sa'ad Abdi. Abdullah Sa'ad Abdi, a man who has a past that keeps him at an arms length from the feelings he had harbored for years, could not for the life of him pull away from the compelling inclination of wanting to protect Surayya as danger lurked silently around her, to comfort and to quench an insatiable curiosity that was strong enough to make him crawl back into the hole of sentiments he had done everything in his power to escape from.

Alkainos Series #1 LOST IN ALKAINOS Zahara Ainslie Gregory was known in her sword skills and taekwondo at her former school, but who would have thought that she'll need this skills in order to survive when she unexpectedly whisked into the place known Alkainos, where the things she thought was myth is real. Then, because of the unexpected attack she discovered her pathetic side that lead her to unleash the goddess inside her, which will lead her to the five prince's who'll accompany her in this forest-like-journey. She got lost in this place called Alkainos and now she will start walking in every path she'll encounter that will lead her to the unknown. For her, Alkainos is a maze game that she need to finish, will she reach her destination? or she'll be stuck and be Lost in Alkainos? 04/15/2021 -14 ©All Rights Reserved Meurtrier Rose🥀

The forbidden love story of Bridgerton's Lady Danbury and Queen Charlotte. Although both have been widowed for different reasons, the two have known each other since Charlotte arrived to be the new Queen of London. Both women were intended to have traditional love stories by law but their connection sought something deeper and unique.

Naomi has always felt the box around her. Not a real box - not one made of cardboard or paper. This box is invisible, but it's heavy. It follows her everywhere, built from the words people expect her to be. Pretty. Skinny. Dance. Ballet. Everyone thinks Naomi fits perfectly inside those words. But Naomi doesn't want ballet shoes or perfect pirouettes. She doesn't want to stay inside the box everyone has built for her. Naomi wants a basketball in her hands, trainers on her feet, and the freedom to choose who she becomes. The only problem? Stepping outside the box means risking everything - whispers, laughter, and the fear of standing alone. But maybe the scariest thing isn't leaving the box. Maybe it's staying inside it forever.

The disappearance of humans has caused a stir among the people - people just vanishing from sight with no trace or connection to each other whatsoever. Older and ancient forces are waking, legends of Powers beyond human comprehension, and tales of the Beyond Realm once whispered in hushed tones are becoming more vivid. With the disappearance of people, a foreboding sense of doom and destruction looms over the Human Realm. Something is happening and if left without intervention, disaster is inevitable.

In a world full of light, shadows hide the truths we don't want to face. Vivey thought she understood love, friendship, and herself- until heartbreak pulls her into a storm of emotions she never expected. Rykier is there-sometimes steady, sometimes confusing-but always impossible to ignore. between fleeting moments of joy, the weight of the world, and the struggle to understand themselves and each other, the two must navigate a world where nothing is as simple as it seems. A story of love, loss, and finding the courage to shine, even when it feels like you are the only star left in the night sky.

Fifty years in the future, humanity has finally created the perfect society - peaceful, conscious, and carefully regulated. But when Lea discovers a forbidden phone that shouldn't exist anymore, she begins to question everything she was taught to believe.

Spring arrives quietly.... soil rich with fertility, petals swaying and a garden that has never known wonder. Until one flower blooms where none should. When reaches for the first flower of spring, the world does not change all but It opens. A single touch pulls her into a place hidden between seasons a world where gardens guard secrets, portals breathe softly and magic has learned how to wait. What was once ordinary becomes dangerous and what blooms beautifully may burn just as fiercely.... because some flowers are not meant to be touched. Some doors do not open without consequence and some creatures long thought to be myths have been watching all along. In a story where spring is a threshold and the garden remembers everything, one choice will decide what is saved... and what is lost forever.